An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Mo., was charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action on Monday for shooting a Black teenager late last week after the teen accidentally rang the wrong doorbell
According to Spoonmore’s funding page, Yarl plays multiple instruments in the metropolitan youth orchestra and participated in the Missouri Scholars Academy for gifted high school students in 2022. His goal is to attend Texas A&M University to study chemical engineering.
Protestors march in Kansas City, Mo., on April 16, 2023, to bring attention to the shooting of Ralph Yarl, 16, who was shot when he went to the wrong house to pick up his brothers on April 13.The prosecutor said Lester, who lived alone, shot Yarl with a .32-caliber revolver through a glass door. No words were exchanged between the two. There were no witnesses or video of the shooting itself.reveal that Lester told police he picked up his gun after hearing the doorbell ring while laying down.
Lester said he was “scared to death” because of his inability to defend himself and clarified that shooting was “Darron Edwards, lead pastor of the United Believers Community Church, says the community is “shocked” by the actions that transpired against Yarl. “The way we are told right now that this has happened, ringing a doorbell and instantly, getting shot two times, is not how you want to look at your city,” Edwards says. “I started thinking about the little kids at Halloween that trick or treat, can they ring the doorbell?”, chanting “justice for Ralph” and “Black lives matter.
“It is situations like this that feed the ongoing distrust in law enforcement when Black people are the victims of excessive or deadly force at the hands of white citizens and law enforcement,” said Gwen Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, told the Kansas City. “The notion that a victim’s statement is required is unfathomable to me. Homicide victims don’t give statements, yet the perpetrators get arrested.
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